Get Your Groove On

"Get Your Groove On" is a BanYa cut built around English rap vocals, first appearing in Pump It Up THE REBIRTH. It stayed in the Original channel across much of the series' early life, from the first arcade release through Zero. At a relaxed 96 BPM it is a slow, groovy number whose easier charts long served a teaching purpose.

S4 is made almost entirely of quarter-note steps at 96 BPM, which made it a longtime favorite for beginners learning where the panels are. S7 adds eighth-note twist and turn passages near the start and the finish; because the BPM is so low, many players just drag their feet through them, but it is worth twisting properly since this is where serious hip-twisting begins to appear in PIU. It was rescaled to 7 in PHOENIX. S12 has very sparse note density apart from a few drills and a sixteenth-note twist stretch at the end that would suit a 13; those bits are short and few, so the chart was long regarded as an overrated 13 and was eventually dropped to 12 in XX.

D10 helps Double newcomers learn panel positions, though its closing stretch hides an abrupt weight shift and a pattern that does not quite line up with the rhythm, so caution is advised. D22 came much later, added in the Prime 2 1.10 patch. It cruises easily through the early and middle sections, then unloads a thirty-second-note burst at the very end, the same effective speed as a sixteenth-note run at 192 BPM and identical to Hyacinth and Annihilator Method. Surviving that finish is the real break-on point. It was rated 21 in Prime 2 and promoted to D22 in XX, almost certainly because of that closing flurry. The chart was designed by CONRAD.